Science and Nonduality Conference 2017

Event Schedule

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4:00pm

Die Wise – A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

4:00pm - 7:00pm, Oct 18

San Jose

Dying well is not a matter of enlightened self-interest or personal preference. Dying well must become an obligation that living people and dying people owe to each other and to those to come. Die Wise ...

This workshop is a combination of interactive talks and exercises exploring the power of human connection and sexual energy. In order for us to live a fulfilling life, it is of most importance for us ...

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9:00am

The Enneagram and Inner Witnessing

9:00am - 12:00pm, Oct 19

San Jose

Representing many spiritual traditions, participants in this workshop have likely experienced the non-dual realm as a result of their varied practice. Being spiritually awake during the day is a challenge for us all, regardless of ...

This workshop focuses on the explorers of the subtle realms of dream, death, and altered states of consciousness known as “shamans” in indigenous traditions and as “Siddha Adepts” in Buddhist and Hindu Tantra traditions. In ...

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Speaker:

Robert Thurman
Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University

Is it possible to enter into two-way communication with people in the distant future? In this highly experiential workshop, we explore this possibility through a technique that straddles the blurry boundary between improvisational role-playing and ...

Continuum Movement® is a dynamic inquiry into what it is to be a human being, providing a method to consciously explore our self as an unfolding biological and planetary process. Water, and the fact that ...

Philosopher Tim Freke invites you experience for yourself the deep awake state. This is a profound shift in consciousness, which is completely natural and available to all of us. It is characterized by the profound ...

Unresolved trauma casts a powerful spell that disrupts our life and our relationships. We have an innate capacity to heal trauma within our body and psyche. The workshop employs dialogue and experiential tools for you ...

Cravings for addictive substances and activities are merely the symptomology, the outward surface layer concealing underlying issues that truly drive the momentum of addiction. Shame and trauma are common underlying drivers. Shame is more than ...

Peia has gathered songs from living and ancient traditions that span across the globe. She carries melodies wrinkled and wise with time, laboring faithfully to revive their language, stories and original essence. Praised for her ...
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Nowadays people tend to hear the word “contemplative” as simply the Christian equivalent of what most the world knows as “meditation” —i.e., stilling the mind and resting in the flow of consciousness. But in ...
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Join Michaela Boehm and Steve James in this experiential session for an exploration of the play of the masculine and feminine in erotic friction, emerging from a radical intimacy with life itself. We will explore ...

How do we awaken to that which is beyond our thoughts and mental projections? For many of us, it's natural to start on the intellectual plane and to use the power of the scientific, rational ...
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Edward Frenkel
Professor of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley

12:30pm

Lunch - Music with Cello Joe

12:30pm - 2:00pm, Oct 20

Hayes Terrace

Joey Chang, aka CelloJoe, is an anomaly in the world of cellists. By combining cello with beatboxing, he has created a unique genre: Classical Hip Hop. CelloJoe records live on stage with a loop pedal ...
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In this thrilling workshop, passionate chocolate maker extraordinaire Jonas Ketterle of Firefly Chocolate will share his deep knowledge of cacao (gained in part from working with Indigenous Maya farmers), covering its origins, rituals and myths ...
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According to the Kabbalistic tradition, every soul is deployed into the world of form to heal a particular part of the world’s brokenness. This is called tikkun olam, “repairing the world.” In the Tibetan ...

The innate value of the human, human experience as it is, and life itself seems to be lost to the conception of nonduality being presented by some teachers in the West. Existence conceived and discussed ...

Thrilling audiences by blending the improvisation of jazz, the cultural depth of world music, and the soulfulness of devotional kirtan, BOLO's infectious rhythm gets people moving. BOLO is comprised of three musical innovators: Eliyahu Sills ...
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Crazy...or wise? The traditional wisdom of indigenous cultures often contradicts modern views about a mental health crisis. Is it a ‘calling’ to grow or just a ‘broken brain’? The documentary CRAZYWISE explores what can ...

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As Weak As A Man, As Tranquil As A God: Healing Practices & Spiritual Exercises In The Mother Mantra Tradition, Selene Calloni Williams

9:00am - 10:30am, Oct 21

San Jose

We need a new method of thinking, which helps us conceive the complexity of reality, instead of reducing reality to what the ordinary mind can control. An authentically new method of thinking must provide us ...

In Rupert’s meetings we explore the perennial non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions, such as Advaita Vedanta, Mahayana and Dzogchen Buddhism, Kashmir Shaivism, Mystical Christianity ...
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Continuum Movement® is a dynamic inquiry into what it is to be a human being, providing a method to consciously explore our self as an unfolding biological and planetary process. Water, and the fact that ...

In this thrilling workshop, passionate chocolate maker extraordinaire Jonas Ketterle of Firefly Chocolate will share his deep knowledge of cacao (gained in part from working with Indigenous Maya farmers), covering its origins, rituals and myths ...

There are no sessions available on this day

Through the practice of Wisdom Healing Qigong, we awaken out of our sense of separation and aloneness. Connecting to all life and beyond. Emptying of old programming, and at the same time, full of unlimited ...

C26. The Enneagram Narrative School Type And Its Inner Witness: Our Intuitive Capacity For Received Spiritual Wisdom

11:00am - 12:30pm, Oct 22

Monterey Room

Joining contemplative method with habitual type resistance to change will be demonstrated through inner practice and Enneagram panel interviews. It seems only natural to recognize the patterns of our mind and to hear the self-reports ...

We understand life through the stories we tell. Contemporary society is experiencing a ‘soul crisis’, because we have fallen under the spell of a particularly bleak story. The great religious myths that gave life meaning ...

Authentic Movement is an internationally recognized inner-directed, eyes-closed, movement practice done within the presence of a kind and respectful witness. Through mindful self-listening, participants in this experiential workshop will be invited to follow movement impulses ...
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The ideas of "artificial intelligence" are widely discussed these days, with a mix of excitement and fear. In this dialogue, a computer scientist and a mathematician will address some of the fallacies, challenges, and opportunities ...
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Speaker:

Edward Frenkel
Professor of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley

There is a perennial debate in spiritual traditions regarding whether realization is direct (sudden) or progressive (gradual). But is this a false distinction? Realization is often sudden, no matter how many years of practice may ...

Laura Inserra is a multi-instrumentalist , sound therapist , composer , teacher from Sicily. Thanks to her musical and spiritual studies with teachers from ancient and modern schools of wisdom, she has developed a unique form of sound ...
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PANEL: Kundalini: Its Great Mystery, Grace, and the Relationship to Trauma

4:30pm - 5:30pm, Oct 22

Hayes Ballroom

This wonderful panel of teachers will discuss the myriad expressions and mystery of Kundalini energy. What it really is, and can mean, when it awakens in us. We will explore its emergence as it occurs ...